#NationalZookeeperWeek recognizes the contributions keepers make to animal care and welfare, conservation, research, and public education. These individuals are essential to providing the highest quality care for our animals 24 hours a day, seven days a week, including feeding, cleaning, enrichment, training and monitoring animal health. This week we will highlight two of our keepers and their stories. First up, Sea Lion Sound Keeper Val Olstead. Val has been at the Saint Louis Zoo for seven and

Our guides and guests have enjoyed exceptional predator sightings recently—lions, cheetahs, hyenas, and painted dogs making appearances across nearly all our camps. This is no coincidence. Our camps are carefully placed to protect critical predator corridors at a time when big cats and their kin face growing pressure. Now, at places like ol Donyo Lodge in Kenya and Tembo Plains in Zimbabwe, daylight sightings of lions and cheetahs are becoming increasingly common — and unforgettable. This clip o